Does Vitali have any wins over a HWT you would consider to be top 100 or 150? Honestly, if you can down his resume and find any opponent that you would place in this category that means he will have beaten 1. Respectfully, how can you rate someone like that so highly even if he has KO'd all of the opponents.

Sam Peter? Larry DOnald? anyone

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Exactly. It's like putting Edwin Valero at number one of all time just because he KO'd a bunch of nobodies. If Valero lost to the best two fighters he fought, nobody would say he was top 20 all time in any division. And Vitali definitely lost to the best two fighters he ever fought.

Sure, he held is own for 5 rounds against Lennox; but is resume is littered with garbage. I know its not entirely his fault, and, yes, he does have an ATG chin, but i'd have love to have seen him tested a few more times in his career.